For Sale: Beatles Recording That Led To The Biggest Mistake In Music History

George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Pete Best and John Lennon playing at the Cavern club in Liverpool circa 1961.

This picture from an old EP I have showing Tony Meehan on the drums.

Oh dear! Luckily someone used their brains eventually!

I also noticed the mention of the late Tony Meehan as a producer for Decca Records. 

He was the drummer in Cliff Richard’s first band “The Drifters” who later became “The Shadows”. Obviously Decca didn’t get the deal. 

I still have all my VERY old early Beatles recordings on vinyl, and they are on the Parlophone label.

by Simon de Bruxelles

FIFTY-ONE years after a record company executive turned down the Beatles because "guitar groups are on the way out", the demo tape made by the world's most successful pop group has come to light. 

A Decca A&R man, Dick Rowe, passed on the band and signed the Tremeloes instead, a decision described as the biggest mistake in the history of music. The recording may have failed to impress Decca but it won the Beatles a contract with EMI and a ticket to superstardom.

It has emerged for sale just over half a century since it was recorded, on New Year's Day 1961, with three of the Fab Four. 

Shortly after signing with EMI the original drummer Pete Best, who played on the demo, was sacked and replaced by Ringo Starr. 

The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, held on to the tape he had paid to make and later gave it to an executive associated with EMI. It was sold privately in 2002 to a dealer in rock memorabilia who is now selling it with a pre-auction estimate of 30,000 pounds ($46,000).

Bootleg versions of the recording session at the Decca studios in West Hampstead, London, have been circulating among collectors for years but few if any have heard the original "pristine" master tapes. Sadly for the purchaser the tapes do not come with any rights to the 13 tracks on the recording.

Ted Owen, the managing director of the Fame Bureau, which is selling the demo tape in London on November 27, said: "Apple, the company set up by the Beatles, holds the copyright to their voices and if anyone tried to release the material without their permission they would certainly be sued."

The band made the recording after a ten-hour drive from Liverpool to London when the driver got lost.

The following day they were auditioned by the Decca producer Tony Meehan. 

Epstein chose ten covers the Beatles had previously performed including Money (That's What I Want), Like Dreamers Do, Take Good Care of my Baby, and Crying, Waiting, Hoping. The sale also includes a photographic negative of the band that they took with them to use for an album cover.

The rejection may have gone down in history but it did little harm to Rowe's career.

He made amends by signing the Rolling Stones for Decca. Rowe died in 1986.

                                                               

Mr Owen said that he based his estimate on prices realised by other unreleased tapes by artists including Elvis Presley and Jimi Hendrix. 

He said: "This has never officially been released. It is unique and the sound quality is crystal clear. We have spoken to various experts and this is the best quality recording of this session there is."

With many thanks to News Limited – The Australian - for the article and top picture.

See also - Rejected Beatles audition tape discovered – With thanks to The Telegraph UK

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Hollywood Stars in Morphing Sequence

                                                                   

I really like these morphing sequences! 

I have another one here about 500 years of women in Art.

One reason is that they represent part of our culture, and the other reason is that I am really impressed by the ingenuity of the people who made them.

With regards to the male actors – I found I could identify most of them, except those well before my time. 

The list includes Charles Chaplin, Robert Mitchum, Sean Connery, Clint Eastwood – naturally, Denzel Washington, Brad Pitt and concludes with George Clooney – naturally!

This one uploaded by Virtuous786. Well done!

With regards to the female actors included are Gloria Swanson, Marlene Dietrich, Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Elizabeth Taylor – naturally, Dorothy Dandridge, and Catherine Zeta-Jones – naturally!

This one uploaded by Brunehault who claims he didn’t make it, but I am still glad he uploaded it.

I am not going to spoil it for you – see how you go!

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The Bahia Emerald - The 400 Million Dollar Rock

                                             

                                                 

I enjoy watching documentaries from time to time. It’s always a good thing to learn more and then, if you are interested, you can go ahead and do more research about the topic.

Recently, while checking the television guide, I noticed National Geographic was showing a documentary called “The $400 Million Rock”.

The programme was about the largest emerald ever found. Here’s a bit of the show.

I have written about my ongoing interest and passion for jewellery here. 

Needless to say I had to watch it!

The story is incredible.

According to this site...

“It has a complicated and unfathomable history - will the authorities ever find an owner for the Bahia Emerald – or will it prove just too powerful to shift?

Find out in $400 Million Emerald Mystery and explore the gemstone’s colourful history and analyse the different claims over it.

The unearthing of what may be the world’s largest emerald in Brazil is a truly remarkable story, but the staggering eight-way battle for its ownership is almost too astonishing to believe.

Found in a Bahia mine in 2001, the remarkable stone, valued at $400 million, has since endured a bizarre odyssey, from an abandoned petrol station in San Jose to a submerged vault in Hurricane Katrina-ravaged New Orleans.

With the gemstone trade a world of mystery and intrigue, the 840lb (381Kg) specimen has already changed hands in a Sao Paulo car park, been used as collateral in a diamond deal and even shown up on eBay! “

Since I have been blogging on different topics for quite some time I have noticed that some other bloggers use terms like “war porn” and even “fear porn”!

And no, I am not going to explain how I know this. However for me, this is “jewellery porn”!

I can’t help but think what some creative jewellers could do with this stone! 

It could be used to make pieces like these for example.
                                                       

                                                              

Then again should it be in a museum for all to see? 

I think perhaps that’s the best solution. That is if they ever decide to take it out of hiding!

                                                                        

But when I see pictures like this I am completely torn! 

The late Dame Elizabeth Taylor wearing the Bulgari Suite of emeralds.

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Amazing Old Photos - Pure Nostalgia and History

Clint Eastwood and Paul Newman

Charlie Chaplin and Albert Einstein

Elvis Presley and Tom Jones

Danny DeVito and Christopher Reeve

Marilyn Monroe and JFK

The Cast of Star Wars

 Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

 The Beatles and Mohammed Ali

 Martin Luther King and Marlon Brando

 Jimi Hendrix and Mick Jagger
                                                          

Some amazing pictures from the past of people who have shaped our culture through their ingenuity, intelligence and talent.

The pictures speak for themselves - I don't need to add much. 

These pictures are bound to stir up some great memories!

Thanks to Annie for sending me these!

The Memory of Mankind Archive: The Greatest Time Capsule Ever                            

                                                   

The All Knowing Diary - Expert Advice!

If you have done any of the UI courses, you will understand what this really means. 

Reading The All knowing Diary will also help.

The meaning of this little quote might seem egotistical, but in fact it means quite the opposite!

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